today we are very pleased to welcome tom wheeler. tom as you know is chairman of the federal communications commission. for over three decades he's been involved with telecommunications and technology. as an entrepreneur he started a number of different companies offering innovative cable, wireless communications services. he was the director of core capital partners investigating in early stage ip based companies and is the author of a new book we recommend on abraham lincoln and the telegraph. a technology that helped power a new area of communications and commerce. he will deliver a keynoted speech followed by discussion moderated by blair. a nonresident senior fellow in the program and served as the executive director of the next generation network innovation prospect. that's leading universities connecting through next generation networks. he also serves as an advisor to a variety of nonprofit organizations. he was also one of the major architects of the u. s. national broadband plan that helped put america on the path to a digit

tom wheeler is the chairman of the f.c.c., and he joins me now. tom wheeler joins me now. welcome back to the prom. >> hello, judy. >> woodruff: so how is this rule different than the previous one dealing with robocalls? >> the original rule is the result of a 1991 act of congress. 24 years ago the world was a little different in terms of technology. the people who were making the calls that interrupted your dinner at that point in time were literally sitting down and dialing. and that technology, that approach got replaced by new technology that's computerized, like everything else. so they just feed a list of numbers in and all of a sudden a list of calls get made. and our rules didn't keep pace with that. so people were arguing that they had legal right to do this, and we just said simply, stop. the consumer needs to be the one who is in charge. the consumer needs to give consent that they want to be called, or if they are called and haven't given consent, to renew that consent by saying, don't call me anymore or by calling their phone company and saying, i don't want t

today we are very pleased to welcome tom wheeler to brookings. tom, as you know, is the chairman of the federal communications commission. for over three decades he's been involved with telecommunications and technology. as a entrepreneur, he started a number of different companies offering innovative cable, wireless and video communications services. prior to joining the fcc chairman wheeler was a managing director of core capital partners investing in early stage ip-based companies. he's author of a new book we highly recommend on abraham lincoln and the tell graphic one of the norg nall technologies that helped power new areas of communication and commerce. mr. wheeler will differ a keynote speech that will be followed by a discussion moderated by blair levin. blair is a non-resident senior fell lowe in the metropolitan policy program at brookings and currently serves as the executive of director of gig-you. that's a consortium of leading universities connecting through next generation networks. blair also served as an adviser to a variety of

so whether he is the greatest regulator or the most regulatory or the most pro consumer, i think tom wheeler is in a very difficult position in aned a marges that tries to tell them what to do. >> there are stores that chairman wheeler started calling the ceo's cable companies to talk to them and kind of say look we're not necessarily antibusiness, just we got look at these things. >> there was that article -- i have to say i was -- he's completely inappropriate for a government official to be calling up the ceos of companies and saying, -- really, it's as if a judge called up parties and said come into the court and resolve your dispute here. the appearance -- just awful. just awful. >> i think the fcc is on a firing line, and in the public's eye, and so when ceos come out and say we don't think we can do anything, i think it's really fine for the agency to pond and say -- to respond and do your business do what is legal and appropriate. so i'm not worried about general communications about how to think about the marketplace. if it were something that involved deliberation on an actual adju

not been made public, but there was a vote in to fcc led by tom wheeler override or do away with completelyies, s'sicality's and state oversight of your cable bill. if time warner wanted to increase your cable prices in new york, they would have to ask new york city first and if they said no, they would go to the fcc. normally, the fcc always granted price increases. at of 224 requests since 2013, all but four were granted. it was almost a ceremonial ruling in place but it will now be cast aside and cable companies will be set free to price your bill how they like. you see a bit of reaction in the stocks. time warner cable was already down today. comcast was not rising very much. blip, maybe attle knee-jerk reaction. it does look like a good thing for cable companies. they have always gotten approval from the fcc to raise prices in almost every single case. it seems it will not change very much on your actual cable bill. scarlet: a bit less full of friction. thank you for the latest from the fcc. let's get your commodities close right now. alix steel is here with me. look at that. we have t

sec chairman tom wheeler saying this is a win for consumers and innovators because it gives the agency enforcement powers to keep the internet fast, fair and open. the golden state warriors even the series in the nba finals. stephon curry had 22 points in the game for a win the warriors. final score 103 to 82. twitter ceo of flying the coop. dick costolo announcing his departure yesterday over her concerns over the lack of user growth. check dorsey will take over on an interim basis. dagen, ryan, is this going to move the needle in terms of user growth? >> stock is certainly moving quite a bit. getting a little bit uncertain about costello's leadership. he came to be the adult in the room and turn the company from a messy start a messy start up into a big-time company. it has been slow growth since then. dagen: he was not aired schmidt shall we say. maria: they act like everything is great and they have a plan in place. you wouldn't have dorsey come in as interim ceo. he would have an announcement at the same time. >> they said they didn't want to search going on because they thought i

despite opposition from broadcasters, the fcc, led by democratic chairman tom wheeler, voted to take away oversight of basic programming packages by states, cities, and other localities. with the change, the fcc will assume cable companies deserve to escape local rate regulation. it will fall to jurisdictions to ask for permission to retain the power. alix: another sign that the risk of deflation in europe is pretty good the ecb president is at central bank has raised its forecast for inflation this year from zero, but just 2.3%. mario draghi -- but just to .3%. draghi said you should continue to see right through the next couple years. mario draghi: the impact of the lower euro exchange rate and the ascension embedded in futures markets of somewhat higher oil prices in the years ahead, inflation rates are expected to pick up further through 2016 and 2017. alix: the ecb has jumped started europe's economy with $1.2 trillion quantitative easing program. draghi center is no need to expand and. scarlet: the federal reserve releasing a snapshot on the u.s. economy. the so-called beige bo

overbuilding other cable companies, sure, that will help get this deal through, i think that's what tom wheeler talked about in terms of increasing competition, planting the flowers, so to speak in terms of competition and then on top of it agreeing to net neutrality. not just graeg to it, but agreeing to title 2 reclassification. if you give those things to the government i do think there's a path for approval, but i certainly don't think it's easy. i think liberty yesterday made it sound like it was an easy fast paced approval process and i think that is just not listening to what the government has been saying into why do you think maffei said what he did about your research, that it belongs on the pages of the new york times as opposed to being an actual research report? >> i find that flattering. >> you find it flattering. all right, are rich, we're going to leave it there. thank you for your time. >>> it's not that optimistic it's going to go through if that's the bottom line. >> i mean, to me the way to play the space you've got to get into netflix. everything seems to lead back to netfl

chairman tom wheeler says it's a good day for consumers and retailers blocking and throttling fast lanesorts to come between the consumers and internet should be things of the past. the rules could have a chilling effect on investment in broadband and could still be shutdown as they look at an expedited review of the case. >> let's remind you of the headlines. twitter shares take flight after di dick costolo quits. angle merkel says a strong currency is a problem and a lower open as greek debt negotiations stall. >>> a french court is due to deliver the verdict in the trial of dominique strauss-khan on aggravated pimping charges. it comes years after he was accused of sexual assault. let's get to stefen live outside the courthouse. >> hi wilfred. well, the judge started to read the verdict to read out the verdict about 50 minutes ago. it will take time before we know about the fate of dominique strauss-khan. the judge said it was important given the media coverage to be very precise on the reason behind each decision and to repeat for each of the 12 defendants, the background the charges

that's about judge tom wheeler the other day saying basically that hank greenberg and aig were done a the fed to the treasury. this really is about the constitution. and i know being a fed day maybe this is not the perfect time but i think it is exactly the perfect time. because whether it's about infrastructure or whether it's about the whose guarding the guards, in this case the federal reserve or thinking back to when everything was going on in '07 looking at the actions of geithner, the treasury secretary, what was the comment, this is in the gray of the charter. i'm para phrasing but in my opinion, if we have to do things that tear up the rules of the road and create bad precedence for future crisis this wasn't the way to go. sometimes trying to make things painless makes them worse. one hour come back and we'll revisit with mr. oelsen all that he thinks about will happen in today's press conference. back to you. >> all right. up next on the program, mortgage rates just hit their highest levels since october. what does that mean for the surge in the housing market. and then star

well, the chairman of the fcc tom wheeler this is a quote saying that fcc will not stand idly by whileonsumers are misleading marketing materialings and insufficient disclosure for at&t and part in all of this. said and this is always seemed so far to quote vigorously dispute the allegations. so we'll see. >> if company has much more to say to affect the stock all that much. we'll get become to you. >> thank you connell mccain. former chair of the year not to discuss the policy today or whether feds will be doing today. but his concern about what a number of states are doing today. they have all of these bad balanced budgets requirements. but they play fast and loose rules to get to that. that is upsetting him as inflation did when he first took over the fed job. back in the latter-days of the carter administration, more -- so you're a small business expert from at&t? yeah, give me a problem and i've got the solution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all dig

tom wheeler says his agency fielded about a quarter million calls about robocalls last year.ht we had this before? i put myself on the do not call list a couple of times. what happens? why do they get to call you even when you put yourself on the list? >> they're the only people who call me. >> i believe certain types of calls they're allowed to do. it can be like a philanthropic thing. >> once a week i win a free cruise to the bahamas. >> people want to sell me extended warranties on cars i haven't owned in five years. and i'm afraid to turn into that reporter. where was she? >> oh right. she was at the impound lot. >> yes. >> now i'm afraid. i try to be nice to everybody. i'm afraid they're going to record it and then i'm going to look like -- >> this is you being nice to everybody? >> yeah. this is me being nice. >> we're going to talk about working this morning. consider this work. this is work for us. the phrase work smarter, not harder is thrown around a lot. but what does it really mean? a new book aims to answer that question. it's called "activate your brain: how und

he's like all the left wing media matters, tom wheeler and he is just a demi god and he is. one of janet yellen's favorite economic reports the rob openings and labor turnover survey is due at 10:00 eastern. it provides color on the employment picture not seen in the monthly payment report. >> it's so simple. if you're ever going to raise them you don't want to do it quickly. you don't want to be forced to do it by -- that made sense. if you got to get back to 3 or 4. if you got to get back to 3 or 4 eventually the earlier you start the slower you're able to add the quarter points as they add up. >> they want to go slowly. >> they want to get back but it made sense to me. more i thought about it it's obvious. if you want to do it slowly and orderly you start earlier than you normally would. maybe they'll still do it in june. that would be a shocker. >> if the market isn't already on its way down it's going further down. >> you're adding fuel to the crack addicts that are down there on wall street. >> it is what it is. a number of companies are hold holding annual meetings to